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...Yeah thats right i said 6 what are u gona do about it..
We only have 5 senses, as far as I was taught.

"It like I have a fifth sense or something." "You mean sixth sense." "No fifth sense. The sixth sense is smell, and you're lucky if you get that one." Random sitcom quote you just reminded me of, lol. Too bad I can't seem to remember which show it's from.

We have way more than 5 senses:

Taste, smell, hearing, sight, pain, cold, heat, pressure, time, thirst, hunger, balance and joint-position spring to mind, but there are more.

(Pain, cold, heat and pressure are usually lumped together as "touch", but they are actually different senses - Try step 5 and see.)

It's still just the sense of touch. Maybe a refined sense but still just touch.

No, they are separate senses - under the microscope, the nerves even look different. Like I said, try step 5.

some people say at least 89 senses

But a sense of balance isn't a mutual sense, if that makes any sense. Balance is based off of feel and sight.

. Equilibrioception explains it in more depth.

The importance of visual input for balance is illustrated by its being harder to stand on one foot with eyes closed than with eyes open.

What I'm saying is that no other senses contribute to eachother. For example, it's not like you can't have vision without smell. They are, essentially, Bases. Now equilibrioception is based off of many senses and things suck as the visual system and the vestibular system. Whereas nothing but the visual system plays into the sight sense, where the visual system is the sight sense and nothing else plays into the sight sense. That's why they are considered base senses.
I don't consider something that uses more than 1 sense to make it's sense a sense, and just a job or rather buddies to accomplish something.

If I am a person and I can only do one thing, call me a sense. Now If I pair up with someone else who can only do one thing, and we accomplish a sense of balance, you wouldn't call us only 1 person, we'd be 2 persons working together to make 1 job done, giving an illusion of a sense.

Actually the sense of taste and smell are so linked that taste is almost absent without smell (remember the last time you had a sinus infection or totally clogged sinus'? Did food taste as good? Or was it rather bland?

Yeah, but you can still have a sense of taste without sense of smell. Not nearly as potent, but it's still there.

Yes, but it is very weak if the sense of smell is totally gone, but it is a one-way street, as the sense of smell doesn't need the sense of taste so much ;-)

As to whether animals taste better then humans.....I assume animals do, but I have never wanted to taste a human, soooooo I don't know for sure ;-)

Ok sorry, this was in bad taste *sigh*

Adding on to that,
The wiki article says...

Some animals have better equilibrioception than humans, for example a cat using its inner ear and tail) to walk on a thin fence.
It is using other senses to accomplish it's sense of balance.

Equilibrioception in many marine animals is done with an entirely different organ, the statocyst, which detects the position of tiny calcareous stones to determine which way is "up".
In this case, the marine animal is using it's sense of feeling to tell where the stones are.

Dude, look straight up, then close your eyes and keep your head like that, you'll quickly notice that you feel like you're falling backwards. They are related, even though closing your eyes isn't the same as being blind.

But you still have the sense of feeling. And you are still seeing. You think your eyelids are a perfect seal?

I wanna learn to "see" with my etes closed that'd be cool! (It is possible they did it in some lab)

eyes

Oh, you're so punny.

Puns are the worst kind of humor. Anyone who uses them should be drawn and quoted.

strains the ole vocabulary does it ? ;-)

You kiss your mom with that mouth??? :-P

Not on the LIPS !!!!

*chuckle*

is that a hidden bump?

Never read the book, but the film Pi is interesting.

Im going to the land of no internet next week (grandparents) so ill buy it in wh-smiths at the service station

Just remembered my dad has a copy :P

Flys... I win.

Pigs have a better sense of taste than us, no seriously, they do!

lol. I realize that. I was actually saying that they tasted better when consumed. lol